Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mr. Rahall. I rise in support of this motion to instruct. Over the past year, the President and Democrats have proposed a series of measures to spend a little bit of money to put people back to work, to spend some money to educate our kids, to build some new schools, to expand broadband. Every single one of those efforts has been met by resistance from Republicans. I realize why that is. The argument is that we don't have any more money to spend. I get that argument. What I don't get is the argument against this motion. What this motion says is that forget spending new money. Let's just make sure that the money that we are already obligated to spend is spent on American jobs. No new money. Let's just redirect the money that we're spending on bridges, on roads, on railways, and make sure that it gets spent on U.S. companies. It's wrong to suggest that we're talking about dramatically ratcheting up Buy American standards such that we're going to ignite some trade war with WTO companies. That's not what we're talking about here today. Buy American laws have been on the books for generations. What we're talking about is just bringing Buy American standards back to what they used to be.…”